I just found Juliet Chung’s fascinating article on wine pricing at restaurants, which appeared in the WSJ on Friday. Here’s a couple of datapoints for you. A bottle of 2004 Opus One will cost you $195 at Houston’s in San…

The sports hysteria is now in full bloom. The Olympic Games have just started… and what has that to do with wine, you may ask? Not much, but it serves as an excuse to talk about China and that it is becoming one of the world’s…

In his long blue lab coat, a shirt and bow tie, a pair of wool, chalk-striped blue suit pants that probably belong to his father, Gabriel Clary strikes a slightly improbable figure in the wine department at Corti Brothers in…

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Starting this Saturday, August 23, 2008 the table is set for a feast of insights, ideas, and opportunities at the 2008 Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo. The thousands of industry…

When the Italian Ministry of Agriculture announced in early August that it would bestow the government’s quality assurance label on a selection of boxed wines, reactions were mixed. Many feel that the quality of wine, or at the…